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Alice Pinheiro Walla

Dec 26, 2023, 6:41 PM

Why is there so much disagreement about what constitutes antisemitism today?

While most people agree that antisemitism is unacceptable, there is barely agreement about what constitutes antisemitism when it comes to progressives and the left. Most would vehemently disavow antisemitism. For some, antisemitism seems to be a thing of the...

Dec 5, 2023, 6:53 PM

Academic anti-Israel bias and responsibility in public discourse

In an interview with Israeli Government Spokesman Eylon Levy, Sky News' Kay Burley suggested that the lopsided deal in which Israel agreed to release a higher number of Palestinian prisoners in exchange for hostages kidnapped by Hamas was evidence...

Nov 15, 2023, 12:54 AM

Western condescension and the silencing of Gazan anti-Hamas voices

According to a recent article in the New York Times, it will soon become clear which of two competing claims is true: whether Israel’s assertion that Hamas has built its main command center under a major Gazan hospital (a...

Nov 10, 2023, 5:34 AM

Anti-Israel protests, self-deceit and antisemitism

Being against the State of Israel has been for a long time the default position of the enlightened and progressive; in my academic circles, very few would dare be openly pro-Israel. “Israel critique” they stressed over and over again,...

About Me

Alice Pinheiro Walla is Associate Professor of Philosophy at McMaster University, Canada. She was born in Brazil. She is a Kant scholar by training and held academic positions in Germany, Austria and Ireland before moving to Canada. She is an active member of her synagogue, where she helps as gabbait, leads religious services and reads torah.